On 10 December at 6.15 pm (CET) a 30 minute portrait will be broadcast about Kent Nagano in North German NDR TV.
The film is about Kent Nagano’s start as General Music Director at the Hamburg State Opera and Chief Conductor at the Philharmonic State Orchestra Hamburg since September 2015.
Watch the film live on NDR live-Stream.
After broadcasting the film can still be seen in the media gallery.
Kent Nagano, Artistic Advisor and Principal Guest Conductor of Göteborgs Symfoniker, is touring with the orchestra from 7 until 10 November 2015 in Germany. Soloists of the concerts in Stuttgart, Freiburg, Munich and Cologne will be pianist Kit Armstrong and violinist Arabella Steinbacher.
The programs are the following:
7 November
Stuttgart, Liederhalle
Göteborgs Symfoniker
Sibelius: Finlandia
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3
Brahms: Symphony No. 1
Kit Armstrong – Piano
8 November
Freiburg, Konzerthaus
s. 7 November
9. November
Munich, Philharmonie am Gasteig
Göteborgs Symfoniker
Sibelius: Finlandia
Mendelssohn: Violin Concert e minor
Brahms: Symphony No. 1
Arabella Steinbacher – Violin
10 November
Cologne, Philharmonie
Göteborgs Symfonikers
s. 9 November
On Monday, 16 November at 5 pm (Montréal time) the Book „Expect the Unexpected!“ by Kent Nagano (and Co-author Inge Kloepfer) will be presented in its French translation on the Canadian book marked by Éditions du Boréal. The book is titled „Sonnez, Merveilles!“.
The book presentation will take place in Maison Symphonique, the Concert Hall of the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal.
ARTE concert worldwide streaming from Hamburg, in cooperation with Binnenalster Filmfest and City Management Hamburg: Berlioz’ Les Troyens on 19 September at 8.45 pm (MESZ):
http://concert.arte.tv/de/berlioz-troyens-staatsoper-hamburg
(available until 19 March 2016)
The Hamburg State Opera opens the season 2015/16 with Berlioz‘ opera Les Troyens staged by German director Michael Thalheimer and conducted by Kent Nagano, new General Music Director of the Hamburg State Opera and Chief Conductor of the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra.
19 September
Hamburg, State Opera
Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra
Berlioz: Les Troyens Premiere
Torsten Kerl – Enée, Catherine Naglestad – Cassandra,
Kartal Karagedik – Chorèbe,
Alin Anca – Panthée, Burak Bilgili – Narbal,
Markus Nykänen – Iopas, Christina Gansch – Ascagne,
Elena Zhidkova – Didon, Katja Pieweck – Anna
Michael Thalheimer – Director
Further performances: 23, 26 September, 1, 4, 9, 14 October
The NDR radio will broadcast live from 5.55 pm (MESZ) on NDR Kultur.
More information here:
On Sunday, 13 September in Hamburg, Kent Nagano will conduct his first Akademiekonzert in the church St. Michaelis („Michel“) with the Chamber Orchester of the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra. It will be his first concert within his new position: Kent Nagano is the new Hamburg General Music Director of the State Opera and Chiefconductor of the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra.
Find her more information about the concert.
On Saturday, 19 September Kent Nagano will conduct his first Opera premiere: Berlioz‘ Les Troyens, brought on stage by German director Michael Thalheimer.
Kent Nagano, Artistic Advisor and Principal Buest Conductor of the Gothenborg Symphony Orchestra since 2013, is going to perform with the orchestra at the Baltic Sea Festival in Berwaldhallen / Stockholm on 24 August. The orchestra will play works bei Sibelius and Strauss. Clarinet player Martin Fröst will also present the clarinet concerto by Carl Nielsen.
The same program can already be heard on 21 August in Göteborgs Konzerthuset.
Please read more about the program and the Baltic Sea Festival here.
The managing director of Dresdner Musikfestspiele Jan Vogler, conductor Kent Nagano and director Georges Delnon were invited to a special talk on MDR Figaro on 2 June.
The radio show on the occasion of the performance of Leonard Bernstein’s “A quiet place” on 3 June in Gläserne Manufaktur in Dresden can be streamed here.
Kent Nagano, future General Music Director of the Hamburg State Opera and Chief Conductor of the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra, Georges Delnon, the future Intendant of the Hamburg State Opera, John Neumeier, Director and Chief Choreographer of the Hamburg Ballet, and Detlef Meierjohann, Managing Director of the Hamburg State Opera presented the 2015/2016 season in a press conference today. In keeping with the meaningful tradition of the three institutions, the new leadership team has set the goal of developing an individual and recognizable profile that spans the bridge between considered cultivation of traditional repertoire and a distinctive passion for new forms.
The Hamburg State Opera will open the season with Berlioz’s opera “Les Troyens”, with Michael Thalheimer giving his directorial debut and Kent Nagano raising his baton for the first time at the opera house. Alongside this production, the revitalized opera stabile will not only host Christoph Marthaler’s “Isoldes Abendbrot”, featuring the mezzosoprano Anne Sofie von Otter, but will also present the world premiere of “Weine night, singe” by Michael Wertmüller, directed by Jette Steckel.
Love and the experience of human agony are the overriding themes of both of the Hamburg Ballet’s premieres in the 2015/2016 season. John Neumeier will choreograph the story of the Italian actress Eleonore Duse and will also bring Messiaen’s symphony “Turangalîla” to the stage, conducted by Kent Nagano. Included in the season’s numerous repertoire productions is “A Cinderella Story” as well as the “Saint Matthew Passion”, set to J.S. Bach’s poignant music.
Hamburg’s new General Music Director Kent Nagano and the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra will start their first season together by paying homage to great composers of Hamburg. The 188th concert season will be characterised by classical composers such as Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Berlioz and Mahler together with works by contemporary artists such as Unsuk Chin, Toshio Hosokawa and Peter Ruzicka. Kent Nagano will conduct seven concert programmes, while guest conductors include Philippe Herreweghe and Lothar Zagrosek.
The season brochures for the three institutions can be viewed online under
Tonight 23 April 2015 the concert of Kent Nagano and the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich will be broadcasted live on SRF 2 at 7.30 pm.
Please click her to listen live.
On the program are:
Georg Friedrich Haas: Concerto Grosso Nr. 1 for 4 Alphorns and Orchestra (2014)
Bruckner: Symphony No 6 A-Major
Kent Nagano will be live on television in ZDF Morgenmagazin on 17 April from ca. 8.30 am.